Hot and Cold Takes for Notre Dame VS Miami Ohio

Optimism is……Back?

How’d We Do Last Week?

As a refresher, I feature the most interesting, most wildly inaccurate, and most accurate takes for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish from the previous week. Let’s get started!

Most Wildly Inaccurate

Ask and you shall receive my friend Farsdahl. He was very wrong and THANK GOD he was.

Most Interesting

I love me some CJ Carr fan fiction. Also pretty solid analysis of Price and Love going over 100 (very close).

Most Accurate

Sometimes I do get one of these things right. 2 TD passes in 1 half from Angeli to the TEs. It was a bit tongue and cheek, but it happened!

And now onto the takes for this week’s matchup between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Miami Ohio RedHawks.

Cold Take

Boubacar Traore AND Bryce Young both get sacks

The continued emergence of Traore could not have come at a better time with the injury to Botelho. He looks like an SEC lineman and talent is simply oozing out of him. He looked like a WR running down the sideline after his pick 6 for Christ’s sake. He will be a force off the edge in this one and have at least 1 sack. Another name to watch is 5 star Freshman Bryce Young. He played a more significant role last week, which will only continue with Botelho out. Young will get even more opportunities this week after a strong showing both on special teams and off the edge.

also…RIP

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Hot Take

(Gulp) Riley Leonard throws for 3 Touchdown

They don’t call it a hot take for nothing, folks! Leonard has……not been good throwing the ball. He was electric running the ball a week ago and the offense dominated an inferior opponent. I think Miami will stack the box and try to force Leonard to beat them with his legs. My caveat to this take is that these will be more of “schemed” touchdown than decisive deep throws. I am thinking a screen, a throw off of an RPO, and or a broken play. Denbrock will still lead with a hard run game, but likely has enough tape to start scheming up some unique looks to get Leonard going in the pass game.

Bonus Take

5 former Holy Cross Football Players manage do drink all the beers in South Bend

I moved to Florida from Chicago last year and was unsure if I was going to be able to make it to an ND game for a while……BUT THE GODS INTERVENED. My college buddies wanted to make the trip and I welcomed it with open arms. If you see us out, say hello, shotgun a beer with us, lick the pole at The Backer, and give us a hearty Go Irish! I could not be more excited to make my return.